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| Omar meets Chidambaram | | Says no plan yet to deal with BJP's march | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
New Delhi, Jan 18: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the state government had not as yet drawn any plan or strategy in the backdrop of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) march to Srinagar's Lal Chowk to hoist the tricolour on the Republic Day against the state government's wishes.
Omar said this to reporters in New Delhi ahead of his meeting with union Home Minister P. Chidambaram here today. The two leaders also discussed the road ahead for the government-initiated peace process in Kashmir. Chief Minister is also learnt to have discussed the issue of troops reduction in Kashmir.
Abdullah, after the meeting at the Home minister's North Block office, said he discussed with Chidambaram the ways to deal with the BJP's plans to hoist the national flag in Srinagar city centre Lal Chowk, which the chief minister fears could incite trouble in the valley.
"We are hoping that nothing will be done by the BJP to precipitate the situation in the state," Abdullah told reporters.
He said he conveyed to the Home Minister the state government's views on the BJP's plan but refused to give the details of the meeting.
"I have conveyed to the Home Minister our assessment vis-à-vis the yatra (march). I am not going to get into any specifics on what we will do," he said, adding that the state and central governments were well prepared to deal with the situation.
The two leaders also discussed reports submitted by the central government-appointed interlocutors for initiation of the peace process in Jammu and Kashmir and the government's plan to reduce by a quarter the number of security forces in the terror-scarred state in the next 12 months.
Home Secretary G.K. Pillai last week said the state would see a 25 percent reduction in security forces' deployment, especially from populated areas, and more bunkers would be lifted from Srinagar. |
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